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Looking at the study list in his hand, which was already dragging on the ground, Leyton felt that his future life was dim.
He took a pile of books from the first floor of the library, returned to the lounge on the third floor, and began to browse through them little by little. Thanks to the memory enhancement and increased comprehension brought by the magic potion, Leyton felt that his reading efficiency was much higher than when he was in college.
He had already finished half a book in just this morning. If it had been before, Leyton felt that it would have taken him at least a week.
"Hey! Leyton, let's go to lunch! Our church's cafeteria is the best." Josie had been playing cards with Joseph in the lounge almost all morning, until Joseph was called away by the captain for official business. Leyton fully experienced what it means that the joy between people is not interlinked. At this moment, Leyton could not feel the joy of Josie slacking off at all.
"Ah! Let's go! I need to save my stomach and brain." Leyton got up and stretched his back.
"By the way, how is your reading progress this morning?" Josie asked curiously.
"It should be pretty good!" Leyton's eyes fell on the pile of books that hadn't been touched, and his voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke.
"Haha! It's okay. I also found it difficult to read at the beginning, but as I read more and more books, I found that my control over magic potions became more powerful, and the speed of reading naturally increased." Josie patted Leyton on the shoulder to comfort him.
"I haven't read a book in a long time. Today, I recalled what it's like to be dominated by knowledge." Leyton said with a lifeless expression.
"Haha, let's go, let's go. Let's go to lunch first, and then you can take a nap at noon. There's still plenty of time, you don't have to rush to read so much." Josie said, dragging Leyton out of the lounge.
After having lunch with Josie in the Knowledge Church's cafeteria, Leyton had to admit that the church's food was indeed delicious. Although this work meal was not lavish, it was definitely delicious.
Joseph was not there, and Josie originally wanted to invite Leyton to play cards with him, but unfortunately, Leyton didn't know how to play this kind of card game, so he had to refuse, saying that he would rest for a while and recall the content of the books he had read in the morning.
Leyton's words received deep approval from Teacher Kos, who said that he would find some books suitable for Leyton's current reading stage in the afternoon.
Leyton could only nod blankly, and he had to bear the words he said himself. No matter how helpless he was, he could only shout in his heart, "Someone save the child!"
Leyton put down the back of his chair in his reading position and adjusted it to a reclined angle, then lay down and closed his eyes to rest.
"I have to think of a way to speed up the progress. At this rate, when will I finish reading? It would be great if knowledge could enter my brain by itself, okay!" Thinking about it, Leyton suddenly realized.
He is not a pure Beyonder of the Reader pathway. As a Beyonder of the Mystery Pryer pathway, he can completely wait for the Hidden Sage to actively instill knowledge into him. Anyway, he is not afraid of being polluted by Him, and the bonus brought by the Reader pathway makes it easier for Leyton to digest the knowledge instilled in his mind.
"The only problem is that I seem to be a little different from ordinary Mystery Pryers. The Hidden Sage may not come to actively instill knowledge into me."
After all, they are all workers in the Knowledge Moor Group! If the Sage characteristic of Sequence 2 in my body could be used, that would be great. I remember that the mythical creature form of the Sage is a torrent of information. As an information creature, it should be easy for the Sage to learn and master knowledge.
I can only wait and see. If the Hidden Sage doesn't come to me for the sake of being a colleague, I can only actively contact Him through ritual magic.
The Hidden Sage should not have information about the early Earth civilization of the First Epoch. If I use information that He doesn't have as an exchange, He will definitely not refuse. I just don't know how many transactions I can make with the information in my memory.
Let's try to get something for free through colleague relations first. Such a small matter should not be refused by a Great Existence. Even the Evernight Goddess will reimburse believers' bills.
The more Leyton thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. He stood up from the recliner in excitement.
"What's wrong? You just lay down, are you going to start reading again?" Josie, who was sitting opposite, was startled by Leyton's movements and looked up at Leyton, who had stood up, and asked.
"No, I suddenly feel that I can't always read those books with pressure. This kind of efficiency is too low. We have to combine work and rest!" Leyton, who was convinced of his idea just now, shook his head and said.
"Combine work and rest? After a period of thinking, you finally decided to play cards with me." Josie said.
Josie and Leyton's conversation seemed very abrupt in the quiet lounge, and naturally attracted the attention of several teammates who were still in the lounge. Besides Joseph and Jessica, who were called away by the captain, Thea and Mr. Kosith were also in the lounge, and both of them curiously cast their gazes over.
"It's not that it's impossible, but we have to change the way we play. It's too boring for you to play cards like this. Let's change to a way that can both entertain and exercise our thinking." Leyton said with a whim.
"What kind of game?" Josie was a little confused.
Thea and Mr. Kosith in other positions also approached with great interest, wanting to see Leyton's game.
"It's very simple. I call this the Da Vinci Code." Leyton paused here and observed Josie's reaction to them. He was relieved to confirm that their expressions were confused and no one knew this game.
With Roselle, the predecessor who didn't leave any work for other transmigrators, every subsequent transmigrator said it was difficult to do! Fortunately, Huang Tao should not have been interested in this kind of game, and did not move it to this era.
"Are there any playing cards? We need twenty-two playing cards and make some modifications." Leyton turned his attention to the three people who were approaching.
"Only twenty-two cards are needed?" Sia asked.
"Yes, that's right." Leyton nodded.
"Well, I happen to have a deck of Tarot cards here, exactly twenty-two cards." Sia took a brand-new deck of Tarot cards from her seat.
"Do you have a pen and paints? I need to write some numbers in different colors on them, which will ruin your Tarot cards, is that okay?" Leyton asked for Sia's opinion again after speaking.
"Just do your thing, I hope you can make this boring deck of Tarot cards a little more interesting." Sia's words and voice always unconsciously evoked extra associations.
"Uh, I think you'll like this game, it's very interesting." Leyton replied stiffly.
Facing Sia, Leyton felt like a three-dimensional otaku seeing a two-dimensional goddess walk into reality from the two-dimensional world. Every time he saw Sia's face, he couldn't help but take another look, but he felt a little embarrassed when communicating with Sia. This feeling was like the Sanguine Emlyn White, who liked dolls, obviously liked them very much, but rejected the dolls coming to life.
The two-dimensional goddess is always a goddess, but when she appears alive in front of him, Leyton feels very uncomfortable. Therefore, every time he communicates with Sia, Leyton feels particularly awkward, but he can't show it.
"Coincidentally, I have them here. Although I have given up on my dream of becoming a painter, I haven't thrown these things away." Josie didn't know where he found his old paints and brushes.
Leyton found that there were even crayons in this pile of tools, so he chose three colors of crayons: red, blue, and white. These were more convenient to use.
"Wait for me a while, I'll explain the rules to you while I color the cards." Leyton took the crayons and Tarot cards and started working.
"The rules of this game are very simple. There are twenty-two cards in total, eleven each of red and blue. Each card has a number from 0 to 10 written on it. I will shuffle the cards face down, and then the four of us will draw three cards." Leyton explained the rules while working.
"You're eliminated when all the cards in your hand are turned over. The person who lasts to the end wins. We'll play a game first, and you'll be able to fully grasp how to play." Leyton gathered the Tarot cards that had been colored and numbered, and started shuffling them face down.
"Do you have any questions?" Leyton asked everyone if they understood while shuffling the cards.
"Indeed, the rules are very simple, sounds a bit interesting." Sia nodded and commented.
"Well, we can add something outside the rules of the game to enhance our gaming experience, such as not using paper and pen to assist the game, using your own brain, not discussing your strategy and reasoning, and not exceeding 1 minute for each guess. This will make the game more enjoyable." Mr. Kosith added some supplements to the rules of the game that Leyton said.
These were originally part of the rules, but Leyton didn't mention them first in order to let everyone quickly grasp the game. He didn't expect that Mr. Kosith would add these after only listening to Leyton's rules once.
Leyton could only sigh in his heart that the Reader pathway was really strong in mastering and understanding knowledge. After Mr. Kosith's rule supplement, Leyton had already guessed the outcome of the game. It was likely that Sia and Mr. Kosith would be the final winners, while he and Josie could only compete for last and second to last place.
"You really can't play this with Beyonders of the Reader pathway. Even if you play, you have to find someone with a lower sequence than yourself, otherwise you can't win at all." Leyton had already come to a conclusion in his heart.
"Then let's start! I'm very curious about this game, I hope our big boy can satisfy me!" Sia said to Leyton teasingly.
Under Sia's urging, Leyton quickly shuffled the cards and then drew cards in turn to start the game.
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"Alas! I wanted to rely on my familiarity with the game to win a few rounds first!" Leyton sighed.
Unsurprisingly, he and Josie lost miserably. Sia and Mr. Kosith, one acted and the other calculated and reasoned with an expressionless face. It was impossible to get any extra information from them except for the cards that were turned over. Relying on memory and reasoning, Leyton and Josie, both Sequence 8, were crushed.
"Haha! It seems I won. This game is very good. It seems our big boy has a lot of surprises!" Sia happily won first place and teased Leyton.
"I lost. This game is still very useful for low-sequence Beyonders, especially those in the apprentice stage of reasoning. It can well exercise their own logical reasoning ability, but it seems insufficient for higher-sequence Beyonders, because the potion's bonus to us is too great, this kind of small game is no longer meaningful, but it is still very good as a form of entertainment." Mr. Kosith expressed a view and explanation of this brand new board game.
After speaking, he added: "Of course, this is only for Beyonders of our Reader pathway. I don't have to sit here and read books every day, I can finally have some other entertainment."
"Really? I suddenly have a bold idea. How about I contact a factory to make this game into a complete product? Then publish it in the church's newspapers and magazines. Mr. Kosith's evaluation makes me think this game is very likely to become popular." Leyton suddenly had an idea.
Leyton didn't have this idea to make money, purely because he felt that as a transmigrator, he had to do something special.
"Huang Tao will bring the industrial revolution to this world, then I will bring a gaming trend. I have to leave some legends for the transmigrators Klein will send later." Leyton had already started planning his grand blueprint in his heart.
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